Mary visits her favorite housewares e-tailer looking for a new Cuisinart Food Processor to whip up a few killer dishes for her annual New Year’s Eve dinner party extravaganza. She sees a couple of makes and models and starts reading the reviews. She decides on...
Why are so many restaurants so low-tech? Part of the reason restaurateurs aren’t interested in technology — and particularly mobile apps — is that they’re more interested in food and the people eating it. But there’s also more specific reasons, according to tech investor Bryan...
Walmart is offering to buy gift cards from 200 other merchants in exchange for Walmart gift cards, according to The Washington Post. In a test program that started on Christmas Day, Walmart will exchange gift cards from from retailers, airlines and restaurants through its partner...
As e-commerce trends continue to grow, so does the need for marketers to appeal to consumers on new levels. Because e-commerce is driving retail, retailers must react to consumer demand and focus on creating experiences, Entrepreneur reports. The e-commerce competition has created tougher for retailers to...
Walmart and Green Dot have extended their prepaid-card and banking relationship — but only through the end of 2015, which has some analysts worried, according to The Street. Just over half of Green Dot’s revenue comes through Walmart, which sells the banking company’s prepaid cards....
Cross-border e-commerce has grown so quickly that 25 percent of PayPal’s transactions are now international, with about 2,000 cross-border transactions per minute, according to the Associated Press. A PayPal report estimates that by 2018, about 130 million shoppers will be spending over $300 billion a...
Merchants in Aalborg, a city in northern Denmark, have deployed a wide array of sensors throughout their annual Christmas market to track the movements of shoppers, according to VentureBeat. For the 2014 holiday season, the Aalborg City Business Association has installed BlipTrack, a system made...
Alibaba has spent more than $160 million (1 billion yuan) combating counterfeit goods and improving customer protection since the start of 2013, the company said Tuesday (Dec. 23). The Chinese e-commerce giant has stepped up its efforts to fight fake products in recent years, especially...
A federal judge won’t dismiss a customer lawsuit against Target in the wake of the December 2013 data breach that exposed 40 million payment cards and personal details for 70 million customers, Bank Info Security reported. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson dismissed some of the...
